H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB: H&M's Nomination Committee recommends election of Karl-Johan Persson and Lottie Knutson as new Directors of the Board of Directors

The Nomination Committee recommends Karl-Johan Persson and LottieKnutson to be elected as new members of the Board of Directors andrecommends the re-election of the current directors; Fred Andersson,Sussi Kvart, Bo Lundquist, Stig Nordfelt, Melker Schorling and deputymember Rolf Eriksen. In addition, it recommends the re-election ofStefan Persson as Chairman of the Board.

Werner Hofer and deputy director Jan Jacobsen has declinedre-election.

Karl-Johan Persson was born in 1975 and works with businessdevelopment at H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB. He has board assignments inH&M's subsidiaries in Denmark, the USA, the UK and Germany.Shareholding in H&M: 6,066,000.

Lottie Knutson was born in 1964 and is Communications Director atFritidsresor Group, TUI Nordic, with responsibility forcommunications, environment and social responsibility.

The Nomination Committee comprises: Stefan Persson, Lottie Tham,Mats Lagerqvist representing Robur fonder, Thomas Nicolin representingAlecta, Magnus Warn representing AMF Pension and Peter Rudmanrepresenting Nordeas fonder.

The notice to the Annual General Meeting on 3 May 2006 will bepublished in Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Post- och InrikesTidningar and Affarsvarlden.

The Nomination Committee

H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) was established in Sweden in 1947.The company's business concept is to offer fashion and quality at thebest price. H&M is quoted on the O-list of the Stockholm StockExchange and has approximately 1,200 stores in 22 countries. H&M hasmore than 50,000 employees and achieved sales including VAT in 2005 ofSEK 71,886 million. H&M has a wide product range that is divided intoa number of different concepts for women, men, teenagers, children andcosmetics. The company's clothing collections are created by its owndesigners, pattern makers and buyers. For further information visitwww.hm.com.

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